<p>Project sustainability has received considerable attention in recent years. The increased awareness stems from a growing concern with social development issues such as poverty reduction, project sustainability, the equal participation of women, and the social costs of economic development. This handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the wide range of techniques available for monitoring and evaluating the main kinds of social development programs. The authors highlight or review a number of topics that have been overlooked in earlier evaluation publications, such as: -The organization of monitoring and evaluation at the project, sectoral, and national levels -The management of the databases required to elect, design, and implement new social projects and programs -The monitoring and evaluation of project sustainability -Simple and cost-effective methods of estimating project impact. The authors also discuss methods for identifying potential beneficiaries and their information needs and ways of managing evaluations.</p>

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Business & Money

Low, Patrick

Management & Leadership

World Bank

Trading free: The GATT and U.S. trade policy

<p>A generation ago, the teaching of macroeconomics in many American classrooms did not involve any analysis of international flows of goods and services. The reasoning behind this approach was straightforward: the amounts involved were statistically trivial compared to the immense gross domestic product of the United States. Although Americans had the largest part of the total global commerce, it was relatively unimportant to the prosperity of the United States.Today, students of our economy are obsessed with America's place in global commerce. Indeed, in what is still by far the world's largest economy, concern and even anger about international competition is becoming an increasingly powerful political force. One would be hard put to find in Congress the optimistic consensus that animated the largely American-designed postwar economic order, the Bretton Woods system. Then, of course, the American giant--sole possessor of the atomic bomb and production of 40 percent of the world's wealth--believed that free trade and Western-style business, under American leadership, would modernize the world.This belief in the blessings that would come from American economic supremacy has been shaken as international competitors claim ever-larger slices of the global economic pie. Even the apparent demise of communism has failed to restore American confidence in its economic future. As international competition has increased, so too has the debate in this country between free traders and protectionists. The possibility of a global paradise seems as far away as ever. And it may take stronger trade relations and organizations in the future for America to maintain some economic stability among her world competitors.In Trading Free, Patrick Low, makes a strong case against too much emphasis on trade negotiations as a zero-sum game, with winners and losers and the future of the GATT. He believes that the reductions in barriers to trade that have been accomplished since World War II have contributed to the high standard of living in this county and to desirable economic progress among our allies. In this thoughtful and provocative study, he sets out the background and clarifies the issues that will be debated by policymakers today, and classes tomorrow.</p>

Trading Free: The Gatt and U.S. Trade Policy

Economics

Twentieth Century Fund

Concentrating on the period from the early 1980's onward, Patrick Low traces changes in the US attitudes toward the mutilateral trading system, arguing that the trade policy-making process in the United States is failing to secure outcomes that take adequate account of the national interest. He also carefully examines the GATT, taking into consideration how well the system has functioned and what it has to offer.

Twentieth Century Fund Press

The Trans-Pacific Partnership

Lim, C. L.

Elms, Deborah Kay

Cambridge University Press

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